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MySpaceTV: We Do Politics Too, You Know

Not wanting YouTube to get all the credit for Internet-based presidential coverage, MySpaceTV and MTV will announce on Thursday a series of one-on-one dialogues with the candidates to be broadcast on MTV, mtvU and webcast live on MySpaceTV and MTV.com.

The supposedly candid interviews will feature "unfiltered discussions between young people and all the major Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates", the companies say, and will kick off with John Edwards in New Hampshire on September 27. Clinton, Brownback, Dodd, Giuliani, Hunter, McCain, Obama, Paul, Richardson and Romney are all confirmed.

It's interactive, of course - questions can be submitted live via MySpaceIM, cellphones and email. Lasting one hour, the interviews will also include polls taken on MySpace and MTV.com. It's all part of MySpace's Impact Channel, their attempt at being perceived as serious and political. The candidates, meanwhile, are trying to be cool with the kidz.

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